Till. 



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llyron describes "Muzeppa" as saving : 



" We rustled through Ilic leaves like wind, 

 Left shrubs and trees and wolves behind ; 

 Ily night. I heard them on the tnu-k, 

 Their troop came hard upon our back, 

 With their long gallop, which can tire 

 The hound's deep hate and hunter's lire ; 



If there 1-e several wolves, t,l,ey keep in tile, ami step s,, nearly in nofe ..the,'., t, ,!,. ll, : ,i, w |,,.,, 



the ground ksofl* it seemaaa if only one had passed. They | lllim <l BOTOM narrow roads iil,,,,,i l 



a footprint. These movements are seMom begun before dusk, or protracted beyond da\ break. 



Where'er we Hew they Mlon 

 Nor left ns witli the morning 

 llehind 1 saw them, MMH i i 

 At d.n Incak winding through the <KH|, 

 And tlmmKh the ni^lit lia.l heard their (t 

 Their stealing, ru-i., 



VOI.VES ATTKACTKI) II V TIM; BAIT. 



During summer, \volves usually confine themseh cs to tliu wildest reeesses of the : .n| are 



but little destructive to domestic animals. Far different is it in the declining season of tin 

 for, us the poet says : 



"By wintry famine roused from all the tract 



Of horrid mountains, which the .-hiniiu: Alps 



And wavy App'Miinr. and Pyrenees 



Uranch out, stuprnilou into distant lands 



Cruel as death, and hungry as the ^rave, 



Burning for blood, bony, ami ^aunt, and i^rini, 



Assembling wolves in nij;in:; tnmp< descend: 



Keen as the north wind sweeps the glossy snow: 



All is tliei.r pri/c." 



l'.;iit-, suspended from the branches of trees, no\v]iro\c attractive, .IM<|, fivi|tiently, the | 

 proves fatal. 



\\ hen a single wolf roams about, he will visit outhouses, enter Hie farmyard, lirst stopping, listen- 

 ing, snilliiig up the air, smelling the ground, and springing over the threshold without loiiehing it. 

 On retreating, his head is low, turned obliquely, with one ear forward, the other buck; his 

 burning like Maine. He trots crouching, his brush obliterating the track of his fed, till at a dist.imc 

 from the scene of depredation ; when going more freely, he continues his route to cover, and, as hi' 

 eiilcrs it, ra.ise.-i his tail, and then flings it up in triumph. 



Vv'oKcs, when attacking cattle or horses, are said to take them 1,\ the throat, or the II.T-C, till 

 they pull them down. Facts that have been ob-erved by competent, witnesses, sustain the assertion. 

 Single I ..... contend with a wolf by striking with the Ion feet lint hois-c.- 1 . bred \\ild on the Sit 



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